40th edition Short and medium films 2025
How to live together
Tim Nicholas
Six roommates share a cramped four bedroom apartment. One moves out. Another moves in. And in the process, the delicate balance of their routines is comically disrupted. An anxious, ensemble comedy about the frustrations of co-habitation and the rhythms of everyday life.
Competes for the One+One Award
Tim Nicholas was granted a MFA in Film Directing from California Institute of the Arts. He has made the short Melancholia Imaginativa in 2016 and is also known as production designer for films such as Family Portrait by Lucy Kerr.
A word from the selection committee :
Morning in a shared apartment in Los Angeles – the cast brings together a range of actors from California’s independent cinema scene – filmed in black and white in a syncopated edit: How to Live Together invents a burlesque of our time, one of gentrification and precarity, of overcrowding and saturation; a burlesque of sound and space, where bodies and space are fragmented to the extreme, equally precise and devastating. Undoubtedly an exercise in style, an anxious satire of frantic living conditions, it is also a strange group portrait, a kind of micro-society. Each person leans toward a caricature of themselves, asserting autonomy and displaying personality amid a cacophony of objects, words, and gestures overlapping in an irritating chaos that somehow achieves its own bizarre harmony. The group thus formed – in and out of tune – is a monster in and of itself, faced with the unexpected arrival of a new roommate, the Other it cannot absorb.Florence Maillard
- Interprétation
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Lucy Kerr, Rob Rice, Lark Lyra Lou Hill, Quinn Elsa, Jess Goldschmidt, Abriel Gardner, Tyler Riggin
- Photographie
- Alexander Girav
- Son
- Andrew Siedenburg
- Montage
- Tim Nicholas
- Production
- Jackii Chun
Contact :
Tim Nicolas : tim.nicholas@gmail.com